ing of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living,of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds,again was she forced to hesitate. She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality―deliberated on the probability of each statement―but with little success. On both sides it was only assertion.Again she read on;but every line proved more clearly that the affair,which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr.Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous,was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.